The main components of the food security system in India are promoting domestic production to meet the demands of the growing population as also to reduce under-nutrition among quite a large section of the population; providing minimum support prices for procurement and storage of food items operating public distribution system; and maintaining buffer stocks so as to take care of natural calamities resulting in temporary shortage of food, and to act as a countervailing mechanism against traders and businessmen who try to push up prices, especially during periods of shortages of food.

Following a visit to the plant in France where compatibility between IT systems was checked, Kingswinford-based FDB Distribution was selected to set up a buffer stock to provide warehousing, logistics fulfilment and distribution.

In addition, most large companies see the potential to squeeze a huge amount of costs out of the supply chain, which is traditionally marked by redundant activities, paperwork, handoffs, large buffer stock, and other inefficiencies, "What do you get out of business-to-business [connections]?

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